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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every
man's greed."
- Mohandas K. Gandhi quoted in EF Schumacher, Small is
Beautiful
The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all
cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated."
- Joseph Wood Krutch (1893-1970), Saturday Review, June 8,
1963
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his socalled scientific knowledge."
- Thomas Edison
What is pollution?
- Pollution is the presence of any extraneous substances in
any of the components of the environment
- In such quantity that it causes harm to life directly or
indirectly.
- As per the Act 1986, it means the presence in the
environment of any solid, liquid, or gaseous substance in
such concentration that may be or tend to be injurious to
the environment.
- Such substances are termed environment pollutants under
the Act.
Factors which could induce the corporate to behave in
environment friendly manner
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Sources of pollution
- Air pollution
o Industries are the major perpetrators
Smoke from chimney
Industries using any type of fuel oil ,
natural gas , coal .
Power plants Thermal, nuclear
Fly Ash from coal
o Transport vehicles
Road vehicles
Air crafts
Ships
Rail Engines
o Domestic use of fuel
- Water pollution